Anastaci Pacella

Background

About Anastaci Pacella

Anastaci Pacella is a multimedia artist exploring ideas of domesticity, sexuality, and discomfort. Pacella’s studio practice currently focuses on creating immersive installations that make private experiences both public and visible. She sources and transforms materials found in domestic environments to create uniquely formatted paintings, sculptures and environments that allow the artist to examine notions of normative family life and related emotional discomfort. Pacella earned a BFA in Art Education from UMass Dartmouth in 2012 and an MFA in Visual Art at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2019. Pacella has exhibited throughout New England in a variety of group exhibitions, and has enjoyed to support of numerous artists, including Faith Wilding, who have helped her foster connections between her own art, feminist values, and community activism. After teaching art in the public schools for eight year, she decided to extend her passion for art and educating to the Cape Cod community at large. Pacella is a Co-Founder and curator of The Cordial Eye Gallery and Artist Space in Hyannis, MA, where she uses her platform to hold space for emerging artists questioning social norms and investigating forms of institutional critique.